johnhemming2 wrote:UndercoverElephant wrote:johnhemming2 wrote:If it was a huge story you would expect it to have already been mentioned.
Hah! You might just have well written: "You can trust the mainstream media. If there's a story worth reporting, you can rely on them to keep the public informed." Only one problem with this: it is total bollocks.
That is, however, paranoid nonsense.
No it isn't, and the fact that you think otherwise just confirms you are a willing mouthpiece of the establishment and/or detached from the reality of normal people.
Unless there is an injunction the various media will tend to report on things that they think that their readers would like to read. (hear/watch etc).
Rubbish. Total nonsense. There are instructions from those at the top - owners, senior management, etc... about what to report and what not to report, and how to report it. I know this for a fact. My wife spent many years working as a sub-editor for the Sunday Times and The Guardian. To give you a real world example, if a writer for the ST refers to "strikers" or "protestors", the word is changed by the sub-editor to "militants". There are many other examples of this. And are you seriously trying to convince people that Rupert Murdoch doesn't use his considerable power to try to further his considerable political agenda?
There are countless other specific examples, the Julian Assange case being a very obvious one, and a case where you have previously demonstrated your position as a mouthpiece of the establishment, and actually defending the grotesquely biased non-reporting of the real story.
I don't know who you think you are fooling, John, but it doesn't include anybody who posts regularly on this board.